Word: painting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberties in the Mediterranean haunting archaeological digs. Others were just as hungry for academic pursuits, though a bit rusty. Most needed help in such forgotten arts as ordering their thoughts in a coherent essay. "At the beginning," recalls Principal Thomas Hollins, "they acted as if they were trying to paint a picture with a pickax...
Boff & Grunt. His frankness interlarded with frenzy and his open face barred with a villainous black mustache, Appel happily plays the abstract-expressionist role. Painting, he says, "is a battle! Boff goes the paint! It explodes! It's an adventure! It's destroying what I've done before!" At the easel, he swirls, smears and stabs with tubes in mid-squeeze, a palette knife, his hands and, occasionally, a brush, grunting as he works. In a few hours, the picture is done: a wet, gaudy mass of color violently heaped and stirred. Sometimes it is a brutally...
Brought up near the Amsterdam docks, Appel worked as a youth in his father's : barber shop, early decided against so niggling and polite a trade. Painting was his only care, and to pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for long stretches. The poor Belgian miners to whose grandfathers the young Van Gogh had ministered as a tortured divinity student were amazed when the ragged Appel appeared to paint them in his turn, in their turn ministered to him, sharing what they had with the hot-eyed and hungry traveler...
...expected until late January or early February, the bassinet used by Prince Charles and Princess Anne has been redecorated in buttercup yellow and white frilled nylon-safe colors for either sex. A sunny nursery suite commanding the palace's inner courtyard sports a fresh coat of off-white paint and new chintz curtains. Technicians are ready to fit out a complete delivery room in one wing if, as anticipated, the 33-year-old Queen decides to have the baby in Buckingham Palace. And the daughter of a Merseyside policeman, Mabel Anderson, taken on as an assistant nanny at Charles...
Dilworth ran back to his room, undressed, and flung himself on the bed. As he peered out from his cashmere blanket, waiting for the Lowell House bells to begin, he suddenly thought he understood what had motivated Dali to paint The Last Supper...